Mr. Liu is already past seventy this year and has no responsibilities in the palace. However, those with clever ears and eyes can always know that Ding Ao is the eunuch under the name of this old man. What's more, as long as he is not a blind man, he knows that Mr. Liu is the most private official around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, so he has the name of "Custom Managing Director".

No matter how busy Lu Suyao is at work, she has not ignored these high-ranking "seniors". She knows very well that she is a "nova" who has reached the top in one step. If the Crown Prince had not been shocked by the world, as the Crown Prince's sexual enlightenment teacher, she might have stopped being "pin" in her life. Not to mention participating in the maintenance service, even if she accidentally says a word, she will be sent to the Clothes Washing Bureau.

In this state, it can be regarded as a loss of gain.

However, it is not that easy to meet Liu Ruoyu. He deserves his name, looks like he is stupid and does not show his face to the outside world.

After several twists and turns, Lu Suyao finally sat in front of Liu Ruoyu.

Liu Ruoyu sat in the main seat, his eyes slightly closed, and a smile appeared on his face as if there was something or something.

"Honey Liu, have you been safe lately?" Lu Suyao was a little nervous before she realized that she seemed not used to being Liu Ruoyu's guest. In fact, she was already in awe when she saw the admiral of the East Factory standing aside to serve her. At this moment, she realized how much support the crown prince had given her.

"Miss Lu, our family is over 70 years old and has little energy. Let's talk about the serious business if we are not asleep." Liu Ruoyu said casually.

Lu Suyao tried hard to put on a calm smile: "Husband Liu, there has been a strange news recently. Even the people I have followed the crown prince all day long have heard of it from others."

"If you should believe it, just think it's wind blowing." Liu Ruoyu said without a trace.

Lu Suyao knew that the old man would not give guidance to the younger generation easily. Just talk about herself, would she educate her men to do things, how should the palace maids, eunuchs and scholars do things? She also confiscated tuition fees and did not drink people's apprenticeship tea. Why teach them? Everything depends on everyone's understanding. If you can stay, you will stay. If you can't stay, you will go.

"Thank you, Mr. Liu, for your teachings. This is really a treasure that can't be bought by the old man. The little girl thanks my father-in-law." Lu Suyao said something, but she was humble but not humble.

Liu Ruoyu was very satisfied with Lu Suyao's understanding. No wonder she was able to reach her current position.

"Being able to be content and deficiencies is wisdom." Liu Ruoyu mentioned: "You are following the crown prince all day long. Although your horizons are high, your eyes are blocked by the crown prince's mountain."

Lu Suyao's mind was spinning rapidly, and Fu Lin's mind was: "Is it the emperor who asked Li Mingrui to be the minister of Dali Temple?"

Liu Ruoyu smiled, as if he was gently telling the child: You don’t have to say it out loud, adults should always be a little scheming.

Lu Suyao also knew that she had made a mistake, laughed at herself, and said, "The little girl is just a brainless person. It's strange. There are always people talking to me about the affairs of the Outer Court, just like a little girl should know."

"That's because they want to climb your big tree." Liu Ruoyu chuckled.

"I'm just a vine in a tree, so where can I get people climbed?" Lu Suyao said helplessly: "I really don't know what those people think?"

"Some people look at trees, but they fall when the wind blows; some people look at vines, but they can stand firm." Liu Ruoyu yawned and held the teacup. Ding Ao behind him said with a voice: "Send it to the guest!"

Lu Suyao immediately bounced up and said to Liu Ruoyu, "Thank you, my little girl, for your teachings."

Liu Ruoyu nodded and walked to the back hall with Ding Ao's support, regardless of whether Lu Suyao understood or not.

Lu Suyao was not born with a very smart person. She could only remember every word Liu Ruoyu said, and slowly pondered it after going back. After thinking hard, she finally figured out one thing: whether it is not malice or whether it wants to cling to one's side, it is just about throwing a stone to ask for directions. It is impossible to have true friendship and loyalty in the palace, whether it is worthy of loyalty or alliance. It depends on strength - that is, the foundation.

Then why did you choose Li Mingrui as the Minister of Dali Temple?

After His Royal Highness arrived in Shandong, almost all the officials were disguised and only when needed were placed. The Dali Temple Minister was ranked last among the Nine Ministers, and there were six officials of the Ministry of Representatives, the Dui Zheng Envoy, and the Tongzheng Envoy. This was the Great Jiu, and there were Xiao Jiu. Is the key point in Li Mingrui or the Dali Temple Minister?

Lu Suyao was puzzled and could only put her attention back to work. In her position, she felt more and more that she could not sing and needed her own foundation. However, the fact was very cruel, that was that she did not have the ability to cultivate her foundation.

...

While the undercurrents in the palace were surging, Li Mingrui still worked in the position of Shandong Censor without any knowledge.

The full name of the Censorate is the Censorate Censorate, which was once called the "Suzheng and Integrity Visiting Office" during the Yuan Dynasty. As the name suggests, this yamen mainly has two main tasks: one, promote the criminal prison; the other, pursue the political and integrity Visiting Office. Therefore, in terms of power, the Censorate is a local subordinate agency of the Censorate.

It is no accident that Li Mingrui can resonate with Zhu Cilang, nor is it a god-given gift.

First, as the teacher of the Crown Prince, he did not think that the Crown Prince was outstanding. Not only was he not outstanding, compared with himself and other Jinshi, the Crown Prince had very limited literary talent, but he also devoted himself to strange skills and tricks, without any shadow of the Saint Emperor and the Ming King.

Therefore, when he was in the capital, Li Mingrui also privately commented on the crown prince with Li Banghua, and the evaluation was not high. What's even more unlucky was that he was actually knocked out by the crown prince himself.

In order to be able to return to the center of power and save his career, Li Mingrui spent a lot of effort to find a direction. Later, because Zhang Shiqi he recommended was valued, he finally discovered the weakness of His Royal Highness: he only has talent and does not value his background and virtue.

The scope of this "talent" is too wide. From the perspective of the Technical College, the Crown Prince still prefers the way of investigating things; from the perspective of administrative employment, the Crown Prince attaches importance to officials, and even cruel officials; from the perspective of academic thought... This is really lacking and can be regarded as being close to Guanxue.

Which path is suitable for you?

Finally, Li Mingrui saw the "Original Law". As a scholar who is very knowledgeable about the rules of the Ming Dynasty, he read this jurisprudence work with a flattering attitude, and soon changed from clinging to sincere admiration.

"The crown prince is not familiar with the chapters of "Mencius", but he has quite a bit of sub-sage experience in his writing! It is truly natural in character!"

This is Li Mingrui's feeling after reading the "Original Law" for the first time. When he read it the second time, he had already read from the legal philosophy that Zhu Cilang seemed to be buried in the judicial system. This framework was built based on the mainland legal system in later generations. In the eyes of the knowledgeable Li Mingrui, this is the "Guanzi" written by modern people.

Han Yu said: "The sages are invincible, and Confucius taught Tan Zi, Qian Hong, Xiang, and Lao Dan." However, after the Ming Confucians gave up their attachment to the Confucianism in the Tang and Song Dynasties, they found that Confucius actually had an important teacher.

Guan Yiwu, who uses the word "Zhong" as the name.

Confucius's own praise for Guanzi is seen in the Analects of Confucius: "Mini Guanzhong, I have already left my hair and left lapel!"

Is this sentence a general statement? It is precisely because Confucius saw Guan Zhong's contribution to Zhu Xia and also carefully studied the Guan family system in Qi Huan's head-to-dominated domination, which made him sincerely praise. Therefore, when Confucius rectified Confucianism, he introduced Guan Zhong's political thoughts. The reason why the Legalists were born from Confucianism was because Guan Zi's influence had always existed in the Confucian system.

Confucianism despises the Legalists, but has always respected Guanzi.

This prompted Li Mingrui to read the "Original Method" for the third time.

After reading these three times, Li Mingrui has completely separated from his original intention of flattery and sincerely hopes to imitate his ancestors and use this "Original Law" to "give the king Yao and Shun to make the customs simple again."

Li Mingrui, who is now 60 years old, found the fiery innocent heart when he was studying again. How could he not be very excited? So he put down the private national history he was compiling, and completely devoted himself to the study of the legal theory of the Ming Dynasty, exploring how to return the devastated land of China.

Zhu Cixuan had never read "Guanzi", and his understanding of Guan Zhong was limited to the phrase "Talent of Guan Music". However, Guanzi's simple people-oriented thoughts resonate with Zhu Cixuan's thoughts on people's livelihood from later generations. He attached importance to people's livelihood, emphasized independent culture, and rejected external violence, which was also very consistent with the current social environment of the Ming Dynasty.

Let’s take a step back and say that Zhu Cilang was not reborn as the crown prince, but a certain Fang Bo vassal state, he would not hesitate to pick up the banner of “respecting the king and expelling the barbarians” and conquer the world.

The unevenness of thoughts has resulted in harmony, which has completely eliminated Zhu Cilang's disgust towards Li Mingrui and a good impression arises naturally.

According to the ideas of the "Original Law", Li Mingrui also mentioned the separation of the three judicial departments of investigation, prosecutor and judge in his latest discussion. It is still simple to be on the central level. The Ministry of Justice exercises the power of investigation, the Censorate exercises the power of prosecutor, and Dali Temple still serves as the final review, review agency, and exercises the power of judgement.

It was a little troublesome when I got to the local area. The local institutions of the Ming Dynasty were divided into three envoys, the prefecture and the prefecture, and the county and the sanctuary. The lower they went, the weaker the rule of the court became. The result was that administrative officials had judicial power. At the prefecture level, there were obviously promotion officials, but the prefect still had decision-making power. At the county level, the prefect directly sat in the hall to judge cases, and regarded the history as if nothing was needed.

If you want the three law departments to perform their duties, the key point is to establish the local law departments.

For this reason, Li Mingrui was concise and used his power to intentionally divide the Shandong Censorate into three parts, one part, specializing in the prefecture and county police stations, and investigate various criminal cases; one part, communicated with the censors, supervised prefecture and county officials, and took over the criminal cases of the police station; the last part was to contact the officials of various prefectures and tried the referees.

This approach is good, and it is also within his power, but the pain is that the crown prince put the old officials of the Ming Dynasty aside, and there were not enough local officials. Many prefectures and counties have a team and take care of everything, which is even more chaotic than before Jiashen. (To be continued...)
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